(Submitted photo/Courtney Tremblay)

By Ben Tompkins

Melfort Sports Product

Courtney Tremblay named as Assitant Coach for Female U16 Team Saskatchewan

May 20, 2022 | 6:20 PM

Melfort product, Courtney Tremblay, former assistant coach for the Tisdale Trojans of the Saskatchewan Male AAA Hockey League (SMAAAHL) and the Regina Rebels of the Saskatchewan Female AAA Hockey League (SFAAAHL), has been named to the all-female staff of Team Saskatchewan’s Female U16 squads.

Tremblay, who has both evaluated and played in/for the Sask. First High-Performance program, is excited to finally be able to coach in it as well.

“I’ve been a part of this for the last three or four years, helping with evaluating and coaching at their camps, where they pick their teams, for both the U16 and the U18 side for the females. So, I was kind of at that point, where it was a progression for me, I wanted to be a bigger part of it, instead of just coaching and evaluating at their camps and tournaments leading up to picking the team and then just bowing out.”

Tremblay also said it will be nice to coach a variety of players who she wouldn’t regularly see because they come from every corner of the province.

“I’m really excited,” she said. “I was a part of the process when I was a player, as far as going through the camps and the tournaments, so it’s nice to be able to coach a variety of different girls because you’re used to coaching the same team and the same kids. Then, when you go to this camp, it’s kids from all over Saskatchewan and I feel you get a very different environment and different energy because it’s the best players in Saskatchewan that are all together on one team.”

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Something she might be the most intrigued about, however, is the all-female coaching staff, something she’s never experienced before.

“I’ve always been the only female coach on any team that I’ve coached with essentially, and I really like that they do that at Hockey Saskatchewan, they really make an effort to bring in female coaches and develop female coaches for that reason. I think it’s gonna be really exciting, it’s going to be good for the girls to see a bunch of females coaching them. There are a lot of girls who don’t necessarily choose to play hockey for a long time after they’re done school or done their hockey career and so for them to see coaching as an option, I think is really important and I love being a part of that process.”

“I think coming back to the female side, you always feel that you always feel like you’re offering something more…when you’re coaching girls hockey and you’re being a role model for them and being someone that they can look up to,” she said. “So, I do find that I am kind of coming back to that side, a little bit for that reason.”

And this isn’t the end for Tremblay, but rather the beginning, as she said she truly believes being a coach is the road ahead.

“I think that’s definitely the path I want to follow. It is really important in my kind of progression from assistant coaching to trying to get in as head coach for those more elite programs out there for females.”

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